i glanced at the Overclocking the Harddrive thread, which got me to think if you can overclock a drive, you can also mod it visually. is it possible? it would noticeably void the drive's warranty, but i would like to know if it's feasible to visually mod a hardddrive (like change the casing to a clear casing, to see inside as the platters get read and written to.

Western Digital did that awhile back. I would say that you COULD do it, but it's not likely to be worth it. The data sectors on the platters are far too sensitive still. If you can find a way, then more power to you.

Well, I havn't done it, but from opening up some drives that died on me for funsies, I could see how it's possible. But I hope you don't have pets if you try, because that hair gets everywhere! I would do it on either a secondary drive that is backed up everyday, or just a drive that I have sitting on my desk (with no data) to impress my friends.

Yeah, we did this way back when with a WD 60G IDE drive during the Delphi days. Even with all the warnings that we'd kill the drive, it worked fine for over a year. I'm not sure what happened to it, but it worked up until the day it was removed. Just bag up the parts as soon as possible...

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